LFG Bulletin, December 2009
Louise Mycock
louise.mycock at ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Thu Dec 10 17:28:26 UTC 2009
LFG BULLETIN
DECEMBER 2009
** Please send bulletin items to me by email **
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Next issue: MARCH 2010
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LFG website:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/
International Lexical Functional Grammar Association:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/ilfga/
More about LFG:
http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/LFG/more.txt
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CONTENTS
1. First call for papers for LFG 2010
2. Locations for LFG 2011 and LFG 2012
3. Photos from LFG09 in Cambridge, UK
4. Membership of the ILFGA and elections
5. 2011 Linguistic Institute - call for proposals
6. Powerset internship opportunity
7. Drafts for comments
8. Recent LFG work
9. Boilerplate
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1. FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS FOR LFG 2010
FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE
18-20 June 2010
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Conference website: http://www.carleton.ca/lfg2010/
Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): lfg2010 'at' carleton.ca
Abstract submission receipt deadline: 15 February 2010, 11:59 pm GMT
Abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfg10
LFG 2010 welcomes work within the formal architecture of Lexical-
Functional Grammar as well as typological, formal, and computational
work within the 'spirit of LFG' as a lexicalist approach to language
employing a parallel, constraint-based framework. The conference aims
to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interested
in non-derivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as
the interaction of (perhaps violable) constraints from multiple levels
of structuring, including those of syntactic categories, grammatical
relations, semantics and discourse.
Further information about LFG as a syntactic theory is available at
the following sites:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LFG/
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/
SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS
The main conference sessions will involve 45-minute talks (30 min. +
15 min. discussion), and poster/system presentations. Contributions
can focus on results from completed as well as ongoing research, with
an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives,
whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational.
Presentations should describe original, unpublished work.
DISSERTATION SESSION
As in previous years, we are hoping to hold a special session that
will give students the chance to present recent PhD dissertations (or
other student research dissertations). The dissertations must be
completed by the time of the conference, and they should be made
publicly accessible (e.g., on the World Wide Web). The talks in this
session should provide an overview of the main original points of the
dissertation; the talks will be 20 minutes, followed by a 10-minute
discussion period. The International LFG Association (ILFGA) will pay
the conference fees for the students presenting at the student session.
Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open to
student submissions.
TIMETABLE
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2010
Acceptances sent out: 31 March 2010
Conference: 18-20 June 2010
SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS
Abstracts for talks, posters/demonstrations and the dissertation
session must be received by February 15, 2010. All abstracts should be
submitted using the online submission system. Submissions should be in
the form of abstracts only. Abstracts can be up to two A4 pages in
10pt or larger type and should include a title. Omit name and
affiliation, and obvious self-reference. Note: we no longer ask for a
separate page for data and figures (c-/f- and related structures).
They can be included in the text of the abstract, obeying the overall
two-page limit. Please submit your abstract in .pdf or .doc format. If
you have any trouble converting your file into any of these formats,
please contact the Program Committee at the address below.
While the number of submissions is not restricted, at most one single-
authored submission or two first-authored submissions per person will
be accepted for oral presentation. Authors may want to keep this in
mind when stating their preferences concerning the mode of
presentation of their submissions.
All abstracts will be reviewed by at least three people. Papers will
appear in the proceedings, which will be published online by CSLI
Publications. Selected papers may also appear in a printed volume
published by CSLI Publications.
ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES
If you have queries about abstract submission or have problems using
the EasyChair submission system, please contact the Program Committee.
Program Committee - Email: lfg10 'at' easychair.org
Martin Forst, Powerset/Microsoft, United States of America
Louisa Sadler, University of Essex, United Kingdom
Local conference organisers - Email: lfg2010 'at' carleton.ca
Ash Asudeh, Carleton University, Canada
Ida Toivonen, Carleton University, Canada
INFORMATION about the venue and the conference, as well as
accommodation and registration details will be posted on the
conference website.
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2. LOCATIONS FOR LFG 2011 AND LFG 2012
The Executive Committee of the International Lexical-Functional
Grammar Association is pleased to announce the locations of the 2011
and 2012 LFG conferences.
LFG 2011 will be held at Hong Kong University.
LFG 2012 will be held in Bali.
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3. PHOTOS FROM LFG09 IN CAMBRIDGE, UK
From Anna Kibort:
Photos from the 14th International LFG Conference at Trinity College,
Cambridge, UK (13-16 July 2009), are now available on the web at the
following address:
http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~lfgcamb/
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4. MEMBERSHIP OF THE ILFGA AND ELECTIONS
The ILFGA mailing list is used for official communications of the
association, including messages about elections to ILFGA offices.
Signing up for this list makes you an official ILFGA member. Members
of the Association can be elected for office in the Association, vote
in elections, and participate in the Annual Business Meeting, held at
the Annual LFG Conference.
To join the ILFGA mailing list, send an email to ilfga-members-join
"at" lists "dot" stanford "dot" edu
By signing up now, you will ensure that you are able to vote in the
next elections and that you receive all the spring announcements about
nominations.
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5. 2011 LINGUISTIC INSTITUTE - CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The 2011 Linguistic Institute, which will take place at the University
of Colorado, at Boulder from July 5 to August 5, 2011, is seeking
proposals for courses to be offered at the Institute.
Call for proposals: http://verbs.colorado.edu/LSA2011/course_proposal.html
Institute website: http://verbs.colorado.edu/LSA2011/index.html
E-mail contact: lsa2011atcoloradodotedu
Deadline for course proposals: January 15, 2010. Web-based submission
to be available mid December, 2009.
Major sponsors of the 2011 Linguistic Institute include the Linguistic
Society of America and the Department of Linguistics, University of
Colorado at Boulder.
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6. POWERSET INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY
The Natural Language Engineering group at Powerset, a Microsoft
company, is looking for candidates for a 2010 summer internship at
their San Francisco office. Exact dates are flexible; all internships
are 12 weeks.
The internship project will center around multiword expressions (e.g.
noun-noun compounds) and ways in which to improve their analysis for
search applications. The Powerset NLP technology includes finite-
state morphologies, a log-linear name tagger, an LFG grammar, and a
set of semantics rules. The exact nature of the project will depend
on the interests and background of the intern.
Applicants must be PhD students. US citizenship is not required.
To apply for the internship, submit an application via:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/jobs/intern/default.aspx
Please mention natural language processing or computational
linguistics in the application. (Note that the San Francisco campus
does not list NLP as a research interest; do not worry about this.) By
submitting your application, you will also be considered for
internships at other campuses, such as Microsoft Research in Redmond,
WA and Mountain View, CA.
Please contact Tracy Holloway King (Tracy "dot" King "at" microsoft
"dot" com) with questions about this internship.
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7. DRAFTS FOR COMMENTS
'Drafts for comments' offers bulletin readers the opportunity to
submit information about drafts or projects on which they would like
to receive comments from the community. This brings work in progress
to the attention of the community and plays some of the role that
previous incarnations of the archive played.
Please submit basic article/project information and a) a URL if the
item is available online or else b) your contact email.
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8. RECENT LFG WORK
Send details of your recent work to Louise.Mycock /at/ ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
8.1 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
LFG conference papers are available electronically at:
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/site/ONLN.shtml
8.2 PHD/MASTERS
Blom, Corrien (2005). "Complex Predicates in Dutch: Synchrony and
Diachrony". Utrecht: LOT.
8.3 PUBLICATIONS
Hahm, Hyun-Jong (2009). 'Persian Number Agreement'. Paper presented
at the Texas Linguistics Society meeting, UT Austin, Friday, Nov. 13,
2009.
Wechsler, Stephen and Hyun-Jong Hahm (to appear). ‘Polite Plurals and
Adjective Agreement’. To appear in "Morphology".
Wechsler, Stephen (to appear). 'Mixed Agreement, the Person Feature,
and the Index/Concord Distinction'. To appear in "Natural Language
and Linguistic Theory".
8.4 DOWNLOADABLE LFG PAPERS
A list of web-pages where people post downloadable LFG papers:
http://arts.anu.edu.au/linguistics/LFG/
Additional suggestions welcome.
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9. BOILERPLATE
The boilerplate (standard text) which previously appeared at the end
of every bulletin can be accessed at:
http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/LFG/more.txt
The LFG website also serves much of the same function as the
boilerplate section.
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/
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